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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy book birthday to my picture book, Some Body, Every Body! Out today with @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social ! A book that honours and celebrates bodies of all shapes, sizes, dis/abilities, health and sensory needs and ways of moving through the world! Available wherever books are sold 🌷 #booksky

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

An interview at @picturebookseh.bsky.social about my new book, Do You Know the Dark?

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Macmillan Children's School & Library Marketing @mackidssl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Happy Book Birthday to DO YOU KNOW THE DARK? by @rozdraws.bsky.social! In accessible, lyrical text, this picture book offers new ways to think about the unknowns of darkness, appreciating its gifts of rest, regeneration, and possibility. It has a star from Kirkus 🌟 tinyurl.com/k4hyes

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It’s so good! One of the farmers lives near us 🤯

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This isn’t related to ugliness but have you seen farming for love?

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Picture books, eh! @picturebookseh.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Want more picture book news? Follow our 2026 Bluesky #PictureBooksEh creators through our Starter Pack!

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Attention #kidlit lovers! Amazing Canadian creators are offering picture books and pb critiques in this giveaway with @picturebookseh.bsky.social 💫. Im offering a pb critique 📚

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Good eye! It’s a blend of many mountain images but a key one I was looking at was Lake Matheson in NZ!

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

So excited for release in May 🌛

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My heart is with Tumbler Ridge, sending love to the families and community left behind in the wake of a tragic loss 🖤

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Are you a #BattlestarGalactica Fan? We have #BSG production art - signed by the artist and a cast member - available in our silent auction! It’s a fundraiser for the Meera Centre - a child development centre in Cairo, Egypt for displaced Gazan children 🕊️ app.galabid.com/art-is-love-...

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Offering a custom painted pet portrait to raise funds for the Meera Centre, a child centre in Cairo, Egypt for displaced Gazan children. Auction is live until Dec 22! 🍉🍉🍉🕊️ app.galabid.com/art-is-love-... #freePalestine #PetPortrait #dogs #cats

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I created this poster for an event raising funds for the Meera Centre in Cairo, Egypt, a child development centre that serves children and families who have fled Gaza. I was inspired by the art the kids made in their art therapy to process their trauma and loss. Many of the drawings are theirs.

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

We want your art, goods and services to raise funds! The online auction begins Dec 11 with an in person event on Dec. 21

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

#ComoxValley + #VancouverIsland Artists! I’m helping organize a fundraiser for the Meera Centre, a child development centre in Cairo, Egypt that supports child & family refugees fleeing violence in Gaza. To donate email cvfundcomm@proton.me or fill out this form form.jotform.com/253175558566....

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Reflecting and thankful after a busy week in Vancouver with the @writersfest.bc.ca / Vancouver Writers Fest, author visits and stopping in to share books with CWILL at the BC Teacher Librarians Conference! Aaand in the spirit of library joy I got to meet @mychal3ts.bsky.social ! 🌈📚

A Vancouver writers fest graphic with photos of Tae Keller, Rachel Wada, Kirsten Pendreigh and Roz MacLean

A stack of Together, a Forest Books with a copy standing and open on top

Roz and Mychal Threets stand beside each other smiling (Roz is wearing a black mask) and Mychal holds her book Together, a Forest

Photo from above of a child drawing a yellow flowered plant and people

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This was such a great conversation!

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Vancouver Writers Fest @writersfest.bc.ca · 28/07/2025

Roz MacLean’s @rozdraws.bsky.social Together, a Forest (Henry Holt) shares a journey into the forest, and a meditation on how our unique personalities and ways of being help create a more vibrant and beautiful world.

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Ok! I’m thinking about making one if I can’t find one

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Does anyone know of an online guide (hoping for a zine) about creating accessible spaces? Thinking about the basics to share with a group who are new to thinking about this. #disability #accessibility

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Just in time for Earth day Kirkus reviewed TOGETHER, A FOREST and said some nice things ☺️! 🌲🍄🌱 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... #Kidlit #readCanadian #booksky

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Already filled out the feedback form on my own. If you don’t know what to say, the link below has a pre written statement you can copy-paste. The codes for the affected items (which you need to indicate) are also included in the link.

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It’s the last day of neurodiversity celebration week! Neurodiversity is natural and beautiful ✨🌱🍄 An illustration from Together, a Forest, where Diwa is joyfully stimming with fluttering ferns 🌿 #kidlit #kidcanlit #illustration #neurodiversity #neurodiversityCelebrationWeek

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Thank you so much! I totally get that ☺️

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Happy International Day of Forests! Ever feel like dreaming in a bed of moss? This is Ben, from Together, a Forest - his brain holds onto dinosaur facts just like Moss holds onto moisture 💧🦖! I hope you get to touch some soft moss sometime soon 🌳🌱 #kidlit #InternationalDayOfForests

An illustration of a young boy lying in a bed of moss with light beams shining down in a forest. Above him there is a branch with moss hanging down, and the lit up silhouettes of a long necked dinosaur, a toothy dinosaur skull, and a pterodactyl. He has pale skin, brown hair and is smiling, relaxed.

The picture book, Together, A Forest: Drawing Connections Between Nature’s Diversity and Our Own, by Roz MacLean laid against a background of tree bark. On the cover a group of children is walking along a forest path, with trees and sun beams above them, and tree roots spreading below. The title of the book is in bold, colourful text.

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Is there anything sweeter than a friend texting you a photo of your book that they preordered? Grateful for friends like these 💓🥰 #kidlit #readCanadian #kidcanlit

Children’s picture book together, a Forest, written and illustrated by Roz MacLean. A group of children walk through a Forest lit with sun beams.

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Oh amazing! Ha slowly learning how Bluesky works. Thank you 💖

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Canadians who make art for kids 👀🍁

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I would love to be included, thanks for putting this together 🍁💛!

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Oh that’s amazing! Thank you so much ☺️

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Picture books, eh! @picturebookseh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

New blog! "Drawing Connections Between Nature’s Diversity and Our Own" by Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social "...each child finds an experience of connection with the natural world that mirrors something about how they experience the world." Read it here: picturebookseh.weebly.com/blog/drawing...

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Drawing Connections Between Nature’s Diversity and Our Own, by Roz MacLean

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I wrote about the inspiration and process behind my new book, Together, a Forest 🌲🌱

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Together, a Forest: Drawing Connections Between Nature’s Diversity and Our Own, written and illustrated by Roz MacLean. Henry Holt Books For Young Readers, March 4 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Cover of the picture book, Together a Forest: Drawing Connections Between Nature’s Diversity and Our Own, written and illustrated by Roz MacLean. The cover features large rainbow text and a group of kids walking along a path holding sketchbooks with a large tree and forest in the background. One girl is using a power wheelchair .The underground is also pictured, featuring the spreading roots of the tree.

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Happy book birthday Together, a Forest! I am SO thrilled and thankful to be sharing a picture book that celebrates diversity and interconnection when I believe we need these themes more than ever. Available wherever books are sold, useful 🔗 in bio #kidlit #readCanadian @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

The picture book, Together a Forest: Drawing Connections Between Nature’s Diversity and Our Own, written and illustrated by Roz MacLean, is perched on a bed of moss and leaves. The cover features a group of kids walking along a path with a large tree and forest in the background. The underground is also pictured, featuring the spreading roots of the tree.

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Oh and these ones too! I drew with pencil crayons then did some digital painting. #kidlit #readCanadian #kidlitart

Printed colour proofs. The page at the top of the pile is one of the endpapers. It features different illustrated organisms and features from a forest, like algae, moss, tree bark, lichen, and samaras. The artwork is multicoloured with written descriptions and scientific names.

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Endpapers! For my upcoming book, I got reallllly into these endpapers. I was going for science-y, informative and fun. I learned some scientific names! What are your thoughts? Do you notice endpapers? #kidlit #canlit #kidlitMegaThread #kidlitart #booksky #artsky #kidlitbooklaunch

A pile of illustration proofs, with a sheet at the top that features colourful illustrations of natural elements, like pinecones, mycelium, mushrooms, fungi and soil. Written descriptions and scientific names in a hand written font accompany the images.

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Roz MacLean @rozdraws.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Hello! Would love to be added to Canadian kidlit creators if possible, the original thread seems to be gone

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